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LeBron James Becomes The First Player To Score 20,000 Points For Cleveland Cavaliers

LeBron James Becomes The First Player To Score 20,000 Points For Cleveland Cavaliers

King James.

Nasir Jabbar

Nasir Jabbar

King James was on fine form last night. He became the first player to score 20,000 points for Cleveland Cavaliers in Sunday's game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Legend.

LeBron James reached the historic landmark inside the second quarter en route to bagging 20 points as the Cavs beat Thunder 107-91.

The 32-year-old surpassed the milestone in his 10th season with the franchise, and now has twice as many points as the second all-time scorer, while becoming just the fourth active player with 20,000 points for a single franchise.

(Watch the moment James brings up his milestone)

Lithuania's Zydrunas Ilgauskas has 10,616 with James taking his tally to an impressive 20,001. Speaking after the game, James remained modest by highlighting his teammates;

"I'm blessed I've played with some great teammates in this uniform the last three years and obviously my first seven in the league."

"Those guys set screens for me, they rebound the ball, kick it to me, they work their tails off for me to be able to put up 20,000 as a Cav."

(James drives against Kyle Singler in the first half of last nights game)

"For me, I just got to do my part. That's bust my butt in workouts, off-season and practices and see what happens. It's just the teammates I've had have given me assists. Like tonight they block shots and let me get out in transition and assisted me. It's pretty cool."

The Akron-native has also enjoyed a successful stint in Miami with the Heat, and is now eighth on the NBA all-time list with 27,938 career points.

Baller!

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Topics: Basketball, NBA, lebron james